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    n = 152, p = .08 (one – tailed). The amount of hours worked in a week had an extremely small effect on a person’s dependency to alcohol r2 = .01. This incredibly small effect size is consistent with the results of the significance test. With the correlation having no significance then it is accurate to say that a person’s work hours had

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    All plants rely on nutrients to help them repair damaged cells and grow, each nutrient with its own benefit. For example, selenium increases plant resilience within harsh climates. Plant morphology and growth is especially important for crops that are in high demand such as winter wheat grain which has one of the highest worldwide production rates. The effect of the abundance of nutrients on plant morphology is further investigated in this study. This study entails winter wheat seeds being placed

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    There are processes that people cannot help but do, examples include reading, breathing, and hearing, among others. When those automatic processes cannot be shut down or overcome in the face of an important task and disrupt people’s performance on that task, it is called interference. In this paper, we argue that perceiving and evaluating size is automatic; but determining value is not and may thus receive interference from size judgments. The original research on interference was done by Stroop

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    1 Table 3 below presents the results for each of the main research constructs for the Cronbach’s alpha, mean, and standard deviation for each question. From this table, it is evident that the questions strongly relate to each construct measurement with all items scoring a greater than 0.8 Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The internal consistency of these items can be deemed reliable as researchers generally suggest that values above 0.7 are acceptable with values above 0.8 being preferable (Pallant

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    Introduction and Research Question I have chosen to analyze the topics of trust and politics through the United States Citizenship, Involvement (CID) Survey. The paper is composed of four segments; theories and hypotheses, data and methods, findings and discussion. I will be exploring further how one’s ability to trust other individuals and their frequency in watching news programs about politics and current events plays a role in trust in Congress. The topic of trust in Congress is worth exploring

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    BACKGROUND: Innovations within the healthcare industry related to scientific and technical advancements often lead to changes in healthcare delivery. To cope with these changes, it is necessary to prepare and train healthcare workers to improve employees ' knowledge and the quality of care. Limited clinical experience with the mechanical ventilation approach, like high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), makes its implementation difficult in the real critical care world. The authors investigated

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    OLS regression estimates that the return to schooling is 9.06% for men and 10.62% for women. The first stage results, reported in the second column of Table1, indicate that the RoSLA to 16 in the UK increased the average number of years of education by 0.12 for men and 0.74 for women. Our second stage IV shows that an additional year of education increases returns to the log of wages of 13.21% and 22.39% for men and women respectively. Once again, our IV estimates are higher than OLS which could

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    Study Purpose: The purpose in this study is very clear because it explains the conclusion that the researchers hope to find. The purpose was briefly stated in the abstract, and then in more details in the introduction. Therefore, the question that is being asked in this study is very relevant for the real world. The overall purpose of this study is to examine or proof the negative effects of gender stereotype in girls. The purpose has the potential to elaborate suggestions for future research

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    Investigation of Turkish Students’ Mathematics Performance based on PISA 2012 Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between selected student- and school-level variables and mathematics performance of Turkish students using PISA 2012 dataset. Two research questions were investigated: (1) How much do schools vary in their mean mathematics achievement in Turkey? (2) Which student- and school-level variables are associated with students’ mathematics performance in Turkey

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    Overview The burden of diabetes in the United States has become a persistent threat to the health and welfare of the people and the nation. Diabetes is ranked the seventh cause of death. Diabetes is a disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose caused by problems in insulin production, working of the produced insulin, or even both, which results in serious complications and ultimately death (National Diabetes Education Program, 2007). Type-two diabetes however, occurs when the body cannot

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